I understand the sentiment, but as far as new features are concerned, there is some precedent for new features being "Xen only" or "KVM only" for a release. That said, I've got about four 4.1 environments running, and have been using April and May builds of the 4.2 template on all of them, and haven't run into any bugs that haven't been patched and picked into 4.1. I think there's a good chance that the barrier to getting it to pass QA is relatively low, and we've already got a volunteer.
Does anyone have a running environment older than 4.1, other than a Dev environment that gets rebuilt often, where we can verify that clock skew has been the norm for the last few years worth of releases on Xen? On May 21, 2013 8:39 PM, "Outback Dingo" <outbackdi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Chiradeep Vittal < > chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > Outback, it would be helpful to understand the harm you are facing > without > > this fix. > > Are you operating a CloudStack cloud already? Have you lost Vms/ lost > data > > / faced unexplained crashes, or found your cloud unavailable due to this? > > Note that this bug has been there since 2.2 > > > > > It would break a current migration path to s3 storage capabilities > currently being rolled out for XEN based hypervisors > as it was mentioned in the thread. This negates our and others capabilities > to be inline with other Hypervisors, and > having to wait until a fix/patch can be applied. It also negates current > infrastructure design for commercial > and private clouds based on XEN/XCP for a more robust storage > infrastructure then is currently capable. > > IMHO, aside from the technical details, your basically telling all XEN > infrastructure, too bad. no new s3 infrastructure for you, from my > perspective this is both bad practice, and again, leaves XEN/XCP users > wanting, and waiting again..... > > > > On 5/21/13 5:59 PM, "Outback Dingo" <outbackdi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Chip Childers > > ><chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > > > > > >> All, > > >> > > >> As discussed on another thread [1], we identified a bug > > >> (CLOUDSTACK-2492) in the current 3.x system VMs, where the System VMs > > >> are not configured to sync their time with either the host HV or an > NTP > > >> service. That bug affects the system VMs for all three primary HVs > > >>(KVM, > > >> Xen and vSphere). Patches have been committed addressing vSphere and > > >> KVM. It appears that a correction for Xen would require the re-build > of > > >> a system VM image and a full round of regression testing that image. > > >> > > >> Given that the discussion thread has not resulted in a consensus on > this > > >> issue, I unfortunately believe that the only path forward is to call > for > > >> a formal VOTE. > > >> > > >> Please respond with one of the following: > > >> > > >> +1: proceed with 4.1 without the Xen portion of CLOUDSTACK-2492 being > > >> resolved > > >> +0: don't care one way or the other > > >> -1: do *not* proceed with any further 4.1 release candidates until > > >> CLOUDSTACK-2492 has been fully resolved > > >> > > >> > > >-1 do *not* proceed > > > > > > > > >> -chip > > >> > > >> [1] http://markmail.org/message/rw7vciq3r33biasb > > >> > > > > >
